Peter Doig

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Born: 1959

Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland

Lives and Works: Trinidad

Education: MFA, Chelsea School of Art, London, England, 1990
BFA, St. Martin's School of Art, London, England, 1983

Peter Doig Bio

About The Artist

Peter Doig's paintings capture moments of the everyday with a dream-like tranquility altered through the use of staining, dripping, stippling, and a vibrant range of electric, almost hallucinatory, colors. His landscapes, for which he is best known, are abstracted from a range of sources including memories and found photographs.

The artist began showing in pubs and bars in England in the early 1980s, catching the eye of mega-collector Charles Saatchi. In 1984, an exhibition of paintings held at Victoria Miro Gallery was short-listed for the prestigious Turner Prize. His first American exhibition was mounted by curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson in 2000 at the Berkeley Art Museum. A major retrospective of Doig's work was presented by Tate Britain in 2008.

Peter Doig Gallery Art

Galleries

Victoria Miro, London, England
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
Michael Werner, New York, NY

Peter Doig Permanent Collections

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Arts Council of Great Britain, England
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands
British Council Museum, London, England
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cesar and Mima Reyes, Puerto Rico
Collection Berardo, Sintra, Portugal
Contemporary Arts Society, London, England
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
MNAM CCI Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Provinzial, Düsseldorf, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Saatchi Collection, London, England
Sammlung Olbricht, Duisburg, Germany
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
Tate Gallery, London, England
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England